Name Nasser Taghvai Nominations Palme d'Or Education University of Tehran | Spouse Marzieh Vafamehr Role Film director | |
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Movies Captain Khorshid, Unruled Paper, My Uncle Napoleon Similar Shahrnush Parsipur, Iraj Pezeshkzad, Marzieh Vafamehr | ||
سخنان ناصر تقوایی درباره عباس کیارستمی - قسمت دوم / Abbas Kiarostami & Nasser Taghvai
Nāsser Taghvāí (also spelt Nāser Taghvāee, Persian: ناصر تقوایی , born 1941) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter.
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Nāsser Taghvāí was born in Abadan, Iran. After early experiences as a story writer, he began filming documentaries in 1967. He made his debut, Tranquility in the Presence of Others, in 1970 and gained the attention of Iranian critics. His concern for the ethnography and atmosphere of southern Iran is notable in his films.
Most of his works have been based on novels. Captain Khorshid is an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, which won the third prize at the 48th Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland in 1988.
In 1999 he directed a segment of the film Tales of Kish, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
سخنان ناصر تقوایی درباره عباس کیارستمی - قسمت اول / Abbas Kiarostami & Nasser Taghvai
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